Swimming at the 2018 Commonwealth Games – Men's 400 metre individual medley
# Swimming at the 2018 Commonwealth Games – Men's 400 metre individual medley

The men's 400 metre individual medley event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games was held on 6 April at the Gold Coast Aquatic Centre.

## Schedule

The schedule is as follows:

All times are Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10)

| Date | Time | Round |
| - | - | - |
| Friday 6 April 2018 | 11:26 | Qualifying |
| Friday 6 April 2018 | 21:17 | Final |

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world, Commonwealth and Games records were as follows:

| World record | Michael Phelps (USA) | 4:03.84 | Beijing, China | 10 August 2008 |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Commonwealth record | Max Litchfield (GBR) | 4:09.62 | Budapest, Hungary | 30 July 2017 |
| Games record | Dan Wallace (SCO) | 4:11.04 | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 25 July 2014 |

## Results

### Heats

| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nation | Result | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 1 | 5 | Clyde Lewis | Australia | 4:17.25 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | 4 | Ayrton Sweeney | South Africa | 4:18.08 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | 4 | Mark Szaranek | Scotland | 4:18.47 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | 5 | Tristan Cote | Canada | 4:18.73 | Q |
| 5 | 1 | 6 | Bradlee Ashby | New Zealand | 4:18.83 | Q |
| 6 | 1 | 3 | Lewis Clareburt | New Zealand | 4:19.16 | Q |
| 7 | 2 | 6 | Travis Mahoney | Australia | 4:19.17 | Q |
| 8 | 2 | 3 | Joe Litchfield | England | 4:21.34 | Q |
| 9 | 2 | 2 | Lun Grobbelaar | South Africa | 4:22.77 | |
| 10 | 1 | 2 | Brandon Schuster | Samoa | 4:31.99 | |

### Final

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nation | Result | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | 4 | Clyde Lewis | Australia | 4:13.12 | |
| | 3 | Mark Szaranek | Scotland | 4:13.72 | |
| | 7 | Lewis Clareburt | New Zealand | 4:14.42 | NR |
| 4 | 5 | Ayrton Sweeney | South Africa | 4:17.79 | |
| 5 | 2 | Bradlee Ashby | New Zealand | 4:18.61 | |
| 6 | 8 | Joe Litchfield | England | 4:19.41 | |
| 7 | 6 | Tristan Cote | Canada | 4:20.29 | |
| 8 | 1 | Travis Mahoney | Australia | 4:21.50 | |
